
Originally Posted by
Gelatinous Cube
Who was able to push his ideology on the poor and disenfranchised. If we (we being the USA) had rebuilt Iraq's infrastructure from day-1 to at least Saddam levels, there is no way the insurgency would have taken hold. Extremist views are all around us, even (perhaps especially) in America. But without the right breeding ground, they just remain views. Africa is a giant colonialist waste-bin. An entire continent of around 1 billion diverse people speaking hundreds of languages are living with borders determined by white people less than 100 years ago, operating in a global economic system that requires them to be horribly in debt to western nations (or, lately, China) in order to stay afloat with the most basic of services. Violent Islamism is spreading in Africa and the rest of what we might as well consider the "Islamic World" for the same reason violent Communism used to spread.